Director of State Engagement for the Center for Democracy and Technology. Tech policy and parenting.
Travis Hall
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A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.
If industry is tripping over themselves to compliment your #privacy bill, you can be pretty sure it’s an industry burden reduction bill, not a consumer protection bill.
#SecureDataAct
🚨Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m., EPIC Deputy Director and Policy Director @caitrionafitz.bsky.social will testify before a subcommittee of House Energy and Commerce about the recently introduced SECURE Data Act, which EPIC strenuously opposes.
New podcast alert -- today, I joined the Data Diva podcast to discuss lots of #privacy issues, including legislation, age verification, competition, and a bit on my own origin story. Link below!
www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast/e291...
A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.
In The Guardian, CDT's Aliya Bhatia breaks down why age verification laws are a threat to everyone online, not just kids. 25+ states now require websites to verify users' ages, potentially forcing you to hand over govt ID or face scans just to browse.
Incredibly important new research articulating the impact of "institutional influence" on LLM outputs. Important to view through the lens of LLM outputs in non-English langs where training data comes from state-sanctioned sources, incl. state media, govt agencies, and even state-selected literature:
